Oversized virtual machines
Servers sized for a peak that rarely comes, so you pay every month for capacity nobody uses.
SERVICES — S.08 AZURE COST OPTIMISATION
Cut your Azure bill
without slowing your team down
We help businesses find unnecessary Azure spending, identify practical opportunities to reduce costs and turn those findings into a clear action plan. Every recommendation is focused on measurable savings without compromising the performance and reliability your business depends on.
WHAT YOU GET
→A clear picture of where your Azure money goes
→Practical savings, prioritised and owned
→Results checked against your actual Azure bill
Common Azure spending problems
Idle or unused resources
Test environments, old projects and services that nobody switched off keep billing in the background.
Unattached disks and public IPs
Leftovers from deleted servers still carry a cost. Each one is small, so they go unnoticed.
Over-provisioned storage
Premium tiers and generous capacity for data that is rarely touched.
Unnecessary backups and retention
Old snapshots, duplicate backups and retention periods that run longer than anyone needs.
Non-production workloads outside required hours
Development and test systems left running overnight and at weekends when nobody is using them.
Inefficient purchasing commitments
Reservations or Savings Plans that no longer match real usage, or steady workloads still paying full pay-as-you-go rates.
Limited cost ownership and visibility
If nobody owns a cost and resources are not tagged, nobody can explain the bill, let alone reduce it.
What you receive
Practical outcomes, not a report that gathers dust.
→Azure spending assessment
→Prioritised optimisation recommendations
→A practical action plan
→Clear responsibility for each proposed change
→Virtual machine rightsizing
→Reservation and Savings Plan evaluation
→Storage, backup and retention review
→Optional implementation support
→Savings validation using your Azure billing
→Ongoing optimisation where appropriate
From assessment to control
OUR FINOPS APPROACH IN THREE STAGESSTAGE 1
Azure Cost Assessment
We review spending, usage, governance and commitments to identify waste and practical opportunities.
STAGE 2
Cost Optimisation
We recommend resource changes, better commitments, scheduling and clean-up. Nothing changes until you approve it.
STAGE 3
Continuous Cost Management
Budgets, alerts, clear ownership, reporting and regular reviews help stop the bill drifting back up.
Our approach
STEP 1
Initial discovery
We learn about your Azure environment, priorities and workloads that must not be disturbed.
STEP 2
Secure read-only assessment
You provide read-only access. We can assess the environment but cannot change it.
STEP 3
Spending and usage analysis
We compare what you pay for with what is actually used, including storage, backup, reservations and Savings Plans.
STEP 4
Prioritised recommendations
You receive recommendations ranked by benefit and risk, with a clear owner for each action.
STEP 5
Approved implementation
Your team can make the approved changes, or we can help with some or all of them.
STEP 6
Measurement and ongoing review
We check results against Azure billing and can continue reviewing costs where appropriate.
What we need from you
TO GET STARTED
→Appropriate read-only access to your Azure environment
→Relevant billing information
→Details of your business-critical workloads
→A contact who can approve proposed changes
Why choose RTLane IT?
RTLane IT remains your point of contact throughout. We bring practical Microsoft and Azure experience to every review and, where deeper cost-optimisation expertise helps, work with specialists so you get the right skills without managing another supplier.
→Clear recommendations with an agreed owner and next step
→A single relationship backed by specialist expertise where needed
→Measured outcomes checked against your Azure billing
→Azure cost management connected to your wider managed IT and cloud strategy
Frequently asked questions
No. The assessment uses read-only access. Changes happen only after you approve specific recommendations.
Most improvements do not affect availability. Changes such as resizing a virtual machine can require a short restart; we identify these in advance and agree the timing.
We compare usage and billing, then review storage, backups, commitments, scheduling, tagging and cost ownership. Each recommendation explains the expected benefit and risk.
Yes. Your team can implement the action plan, or we can help with some or all of the approved work.
Yes, where appropriate. This can cover budgets, alerts, ownership, reporting and regular optimisation reviews.
We compare results with your Azure billing after approved changes. Savings depend on real workload use, so we do not promise a specific figure in advance.